The '''voicedvoiceless alveolo-palatal affricate''' is a type of [[consonant]]al sound, used in some [[speech|spoken]] [[language]]s. The symbol in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] that represents this sound is ʨ, and the equivalent [[X-SAMPA]] symbol is ts\. The voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate occurs in such languages as [[Mandarin Chinese]], among many others.
